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Hi gang, Only recently been experimenting with using sends in Ableton and was wondering if I could use them in parallel for compression/saturation etc? I seem to be getting phase when I do so. I sometimes use them for reverb/delay for better control but I just can't figure this one out. Thank you <3

P.s, I know a lot of plugs have dry/wet now but my fav tape sat does not and it would really ideal for me during my process.

Marcel teams up with Francesco Adorisio for their new gem Are U Ready! Immense synths, raw vocals and highly driven basslines will blow of the roof for sure. It’s a highly energetic mixture that takes care of a big dose of power.

its really lovely ! but yes i definitely agree with the dude who commented right before me about the sub bass ! it seems a bit low and muddy i think you should try it up an octave up and eq out the high if u have too much harmonics that u don't want other than that im really liking

1. Synth lead (probably a monophonic saw wave with some portamento) + Vocoder and Human Voice

2. Synth Lead (as above) + Formant Filters.

In either case, you want to impart the spectral quality of the human voice by using some filtering that imparts the shape of human vowel sounds onto a source sound - in this case, a synthesizer lead. Most DAWs have a built in vocoder, so you could experiment by recording yourself going "Oooh" and "yeah" and "Woah" and whatnot to get the formants you want, or you could use a third party formant filter like sugarbytes Wow, or the KiloHearts formant filter (or just draw your own - look up formant EQ curves and experiment!) and achieve a result that I believe is what was actually used. But vocoding might still be fun.

1. Synth lead (probably a monophonic saw wave with some portamento) + Vocoder and Human Voice

2. Synth Lead (as above) + Formant Filters.

In either case, you want to impart the spectral quality of the human voice by using some filtering that imparts the shape of human vowel sounds onto a source sound - in this case, a synthesizer lead. Most DAWs have a built in vocoder, so you could experiment by recording yourself going "Oooh" and "yeah" and "Woah" and whatnot to get the formants you want, or you could use a third party formant filter like sugarbytes Wow, or the KiloHearts formant filter (or just draw your own - look up formant EQ curves and experiment!) and achieve a result that I believe is what was actually used. But vocoding might still be fun.

So I don't know how to describe the sound I want to make but i know it's used fairly commonly in dance music. David Guetta, Martin Garrix and Brooks' recent single "Like I Do" has it and it comes in at approx 2:02 in the song and you can probably hear it best at about 2:12ish. It sounds to me like a robotic voice sorta thing.